Review Article

BART: The Czech Autonomous Observatory

Table 1

BART parameters.

Telescope WF camera

optical setup Schmidt-Cassegrain Maksutov-Cassegrain
focal length 1600 mm 500 mm
aperture 254 mm 89 mm
field of view 28   28 arc minutes 3.1   2.1 arc degree
CCD sensor resolution 1024   1024 of 13  m pixels 3088   2056 of 9  m pixels
photometric filters Johnson B, V, R, i, z
limiting magnitude 17.5 at 3 for 60 s in R 16.2 at 3 for 60 s
slew speed 6 arc degrees/s